The basic plot is a buffet of stale ideas that were thoroughly beaten to death in the '80s after "Star Wars" energized the fantasy genre: the wonderful magic object that turns out to be a mere tool of the hero's faith in himself; eternal enemies that learn to respect each other through the power of two people's love; and so on. (It also has the whole "good guy helps the bad guy, then the bad guy tries to kill him again, but fate saves the idiot" bit. I can't be the only one who's tired of that.)
All this wouldn't be so bad, if the story offered anything fresh. Remember how the scripts of Ray Harryhausen fantasies were basically the same one repeated again and again, just changing names and monsters like switching out features on a Mr. Potato Head? "Delgo" is exactly like that, plugging all these old ideas into a rotten tuber base. Only the weak characters and ho-hum beasties aren't good enough to let the script get away with it.
But the real killer is the CGI. It's all very elaborately designed, but it's also poorly rendered and grotesquely ugly. The character designs hurt to look at. When your hero looks like I Was A Scrawny Teen-Age Newt, he'd better have more going for him than being a twentieth-generation Early Luke Skywalker knockoff.
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